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• Amazon reportedly issues recall on some solar eclipse glasses - CNET

  13-08-2017 23:54 via cnet.com
  Retailer warns buyers of some unverified glasses not to use them.
  
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• Ad suggests men do engineering things, women are in the garden - CNET

  13-08-2017 21:01 via cnet.com
  Commentary: After the diversity controversy at Google, an ad for Koch Industries offers an interesting picture of how some enterprises still see gender roles traditionally.
  
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• Uber failing to report sex attacks by drivers, says Met police

  13-08-2017 16:13
  Senior officer says firm putting concerns for its reputation over public safety by not notifying police of some serious crimesUber has been accused by police of allowing a driver who sexually assaulted a passenger to strike again by not reporting the attack, along with other serious crimes.In a strongly worded letter, Insp Neil Billany of the Metropolitan police’s taxi and private hire team suggested the company was putting concerns for its reputation over public safety. Continue reading..
  
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• Turn unused dry food storage into a trash can for your car - CNET

  13-08-2017 16:11 via cnet.com
  If you're tired of constantly cleaning the trash out of your car, try this DIY trash can.
  
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• The iPhone 8 name game: What will Apple call its new phone? - CNET

  13-08-2017 14:00 via cnet.com
  From "iPhone X" to "iPhone Pro," the actual name of Apple's next big handset is still one of its biggest mysteries.
  
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• Android Wear hopes you care after fashion makeover - CNET

  13-08-2017 14:00 via cnet.com
  Motorola and LG haven't lit the smartwatch market on fire with Android Wear. Maybe Michael Kors or Movado can.
  
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• Android Wear goes for chic fashion in its second act video - CNET

  13-08-2017 14:00 via cnet.com
  Google's partnering with brands like Michael Kors and Movado to up its cred on the runway.
  
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• 6 places to find free and discounted e-books - CNET

  13-08-2017 14:00 via cnet.com
  If your book budget is limited, fear not: You can score a surprising amount of good stuff for free or cheap.
  
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• Rise of the robocar: are connected cars safer, or a target for hackers?

  13-08-2017 13:00
  It’s predicted that 200m connected cars will be on the roads by 2020, but there’s a risk that more technology will lead to more hacking A threshold was quietly crossed in the first quarter of 2016. For the first time, mobile carriers reported activating more connected cars than phones. At a vehicle tech demonstration in Manhattan this month, a group of reporters stood around a custom-made, tablet-screened display console as Darrin Shewchuk, a spokesman for Harman International, expla
  
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• James Damore, Google, and the YouTube radicalization of angry white men

  13-08-2017 12:00
  Damore became an ‘alt-right’ hero after Google fired him over his views on women. Did Google-owned YouTube play a role in reinforcing those ideas?
  For the YouTube CEO, Susan Wojcicki, the Google manifesto was personal and painful. After reading the news of engineer James Damore’s 10-page memo criticizing diversity initiatives, her daughter asked: “Mom, is it true that there are biological reasons why there are fewer women in tech and leadership?”Wojcicki recounted t
  
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• 'Inhumans' director talks shooting Imax and working fast video - CNET

  13-08-2017 12:00 via cnet.com
  Director Roel Reiné tells CNET why his background in low-budget action made him the man to shoot Marvel's new Imax TV show.
  
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• Facebook reportedly releases mobile app in China

  13-08-2017 11:46 via zdnet.com
  Social network giant has stealthily launched photo-sharing app Colorful Balloons in China, where Facebook and several others such as Google and Twitter have been banned for years.
  
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• The robot that staves off loneliness for chronically ill children

  13-08-2017 11:30
  A Norwegian startup company has created an automaton that helps children with long-term sickness be part of normal life againAs a rule of thumb, the best ideas are the simplest. That’s easy to forget in an age of rapid technological innovation, when the tendency is to be led by capability rather than need.For as Karen Dolva, co-founder of the Norwegian startup No Isolation, says: “There are a lot of engineers who don’t want to make something useful – they want to make som
  
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• Has 'Game of Thrones' gotten too confusing? - CNET

  13-08-2017 09:01 via cnet.com
  Commentary: A land of seven kingdoms, a war of five kings, a queen with three dragons and a franchise with one confusing story.
  
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• Are smartphones really making our children sad?

  13-08-2017 08:30
  US psychologist Jean Twenge, who has claimed that social media is having a malign affect on the young, answers critics who accuse her of crying wolfLast week, the children’s commissioner, Anne Longfield, launched a campaign to help parents regulate internet and smartphone use at home. She suggested that the overconsumption of social media was a problem akin to that of junk-food diets. “None of us, as parents, would want our children to eat junk food all the time – double cheese
  
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• Why a computer could help you get a fair trial | John Naughton

  13-08-2017 08:00
  Recent research suggests that AI could make a valuable contribution to the judicial processIn 1963, an American attorney named Reed Lawlor published a prescient article in the journal of the American Bar Association. “In a few years,” he wrote, “lawyers will rely more and more on computers to perform many tasks for them. They will not rely on computers simply to do their bookkeeping, filing or other clerical tasks. They will also use them in their research and in the analysis a
  
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• Games reviews roundup: Hey! Pikmin; Nintendo 2DS XL; Nioh: Defiant Honour

  13-08-2017 08:00
  Nintendo gives Mario’s distant cousin another stab at success, and unveils the best 2DS yet, while it’s another round of samurai savagery on the PlayStation 43DS, Nintendo, cert: 3 Continue reading...
  
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• Learning morality through gaming

  13-08-2017 06:59
  If you’re looking for answers to life’s big philosophical questions, try playing a video game, says Jordan Erica WebberIn his 2014 book, No Place to Hide, Glenn Greenwald wrote that a contributing factor to Edward Snowden’s decision to leak classified information from the NSA was his consumption of video games: “The moral narrative at the heart of video games was part of his pre-adolescence and formed part of his moral understanding of the world and one’s oblig
  
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• Turn unused dry food storage into a trash can for your car - Roadshow

  13-08-2017 00:06 via cnet.com
  If you're tired of constantly cleaning the trash out of your car, try this DIY trash can.
  
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